Good observation. The Ural mountains are a very
old mountain range. Many plate tectonics books only look back to the
breakup of the supercontinent
Pangaea. Pangaea actually formed when
several smaller continents collided. During this collision, Europe
collided with Asia,
forming the Urals. Then North America collided with
Europe and Africa. This collision built the
Appalacians. Later, North
America separated from Pangaea again. The plate that Europe was on,
however, fused with Asia. Now, Europe and Asia are on the same plate, and
the Ural Mountains are only remains of the collision. Today, a similar
process is occuring where India is colliding with Asia. India is on the
same plate as Australia. Asia and India have collided and formed the
Himalaya mountains. Now, the two plates are fusing. The
Indo-Australian
plate is in the process of breaking apart.

Incidentally, faults usually do not create large mountain ranges.
Trenches, where one plate sinks beneath the other, create mountains like
the Andes and the Rockies. Most of the plate that built the Rocky
mountains has sunk beneath the
North American Plate.

If you are interested in maps of plate tectonics, there are two excellent
maps which could possibly be ordered from the
National Geographic Society.

The first is "Earth's Dynamic Crust" (August 1985).
The front of this map shows a map of the tectonic plates. The back shows
the tectonic history of the North American west.

The second map, "The Earth's Fractured Surface" (April 1995), has a more
detailed map of the plates on the front. It does leave out some details of
the first, and is more difficult to use. Descriptions fewer and less
detailed. The back of this map is an extremely detailed map of the plate
tectonics of the west. Compared to the first map, the history is barely
mentioned. It is a much better map of right now, though.